Padlock covee



(No Model.)

G. E. KIRK. PADLOGKCOVTSB.

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trae rares ajram ,reiner GEORGE E. KRK, 0F WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OFUOLUMBIA.

- SlECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,902, dated April25, 1882.

Application filed September 1l, 138i. (No model.)

To all whom it'may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. Kuur, residing at the cit",v ot'Washington, in the Distriet of Columbia, have invented a "Weather-IProof Cover for Padlocks, ot' which the following' is a speeilieation.

My invention is a weatherproof cover for padloclis, or 'all of thatclass'ot' locks which implies a staple, with orwiihout a hasp, andembraces the following` peculiar features: a

Y cap or openshell hinging to a metai plate so slotted as to fit over astaple, either separately or behind aliasp,orwhen fastened on its iront,

all of which are hereinafter more fully de-4 scribed, and illustrated bythe accompanying drawings, forming part oftliis specification, ot'which` l Figure l represents a l'ront view of the cover,sho\ving its capclosed over the padlock, but with its top broken out to exhibit theslotted plate, with its attachments to the hasp underneath, Fig. 2, alongitudinal cross section of my device; and Fig. 3, a front view ot'the saine, showingtlie cap raised and the slot4 ted plate placed behindthe basp, which isa horizontal one instead ofthe perpendieula!` formshown in Figs. l and 2.

1u the drawings, A represents the said cap, which consists ot' ametallic back or top with inelosing sides or tlanges and an open bottom,when in the general shape shown here with, which shape is madetocoui'orm to that of the usual padlock, l).

B represents the saidl plate, to which the cap A hinges, and consistsgeneraliy ot a plate ot' 35 rolled metai, having a. suitable slot, c,out through it to fit over the usual lock-staple E. This slotted plate.may be attached, as shown,

by any` suitable means to the front 'ot' the hasp, when a perpendicularone is in use, for the 4o convenience of lifting both hasp and platetogether when the padlock is removed, as, should the liasp be liftedwith the said plate unattaehed, the plate would fall away. This lastIwoah-tarot.' happen in the ease of a horizon? 45 tal nasp being used, asthe plate could then be put over the staple before the hasp, and wouldbe likely to remain upon the staple after both padlock and hasp hadYbeen displaced, and until the padlock could be replaced on the stapte,as a keeper of both the p, dloclr audits attendant\veatlier-proot'cover.

Ot' course, when a hasp is not used at all, the slotted plate B can beplaced over the staple, and the padlock will, Whenever also 55 fastenedupon it, always keep the said weath er-proof cover in useful position.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Pat:n eut, the following: Y

A weather-proof padlock-cover cousistiner of a cap,y A, hingiug to aplate, B, provided wit-l1 the stapleslot e, as and for the purposes herein specified.

G. E. KIRK. in presence oi`- te l. STEELE, Sam.. C. MILLS.

